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Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by JustMarkov@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus.

For example, Github is the most popular place to store your project code and we all know, who owns it. And not to forget that sketchy AI training on every line of your code. Don't we have alternatives? Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.

Also, Crowdin is very popular in terms of software (and docs) translation. Even Privacy Guides and The New Oil use Crowdin, even though we have FLOSS Weblate, that you can easily self-host or use public instances.

So, my question is: if you are building a FLOSS / privacy related project, why using proprietary and privacy invasive tools?

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[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Gitlab just stomps Github into the dirt these days. For my own projects, I’m now Gitlab all the way.

My one complaint, though, is that Gitlab’s Git LFS is way more pricey than Github, which sucks.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Gitlab's offerings are always better. There isn't a single feature that I use between the two that I don't prefer gitlab.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Performance is absolute ass, but featureset is hard to deny

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 6 months ago

Guess you have a very insecure browser. Try hardening it and then logging into both. GitLab will throw you in an infinite loop at login. GitHub works fine.

GitLab is terrible for privacy.